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SNOUTED TRUNK-FISH. 



colour yellowish brown, darkest on the back and 

 abdomen : fins, tail, and spines lead-coloured. Na- 

 tive of the Indian and American seas, 



CONCATENATED TRUNK-FISH. 



Ostracion Concatenatus. 0. triangularis muticus fi.scus,Jig^uris 

 concatenatis albidis. 



Triangular-bodied unarmed Trunk-Fish^ with whitish con- 

 catenated variegations. 



Ostracion concatenatus. 0. triangularis muticus, Jiguris cafC' 

 nulatis. Block, t. 131. 



Habit similar to that of the trigonal and trian- 

 gular Trunk-Fish, but with the back somewhat less 

 elevated : mail marked into triangular^ ovate, sub- 

 quadrangular, and other-shaped spaces in a kind of 

 reticular pattern : colour brown, the, lines dividing 

 the spaces being of a pale rose-colour : fore parts 

 and abdomen of the same colour : end of the body 

 brown : tail and fins pale brown. Native of the 

 American seas. 



SNOUTED TRUNK-FISH. 



Ostracion Nasus. 0. subquadrangularis albidus, Jiguris con- 

 catenatis fuscis. 



Whitish subquadrangular-bodied Trunk-Fish, with brown con- 

 catenated variegations. 

 Ostracion. Nasus. 0. rostra nasiformi. Block, t. 138. 



Habit approaching to that of the preceding 

 species, but more slender : head very convex over 



